Government to ban all single-use plastic purchases in schools
The Government has enacted a sweeping measure that will ban all single-use plastic purchasing in schools by the end of March 2019.
Source: www.siliconrepublic.com
The Government has enacted a sweeping measure that will ban all single-use plastic purchasing in schools by the end of March 2019.
Source: www.siliconrepublic.com
News release site Jiji.com has a press release from SAKE HUNDRED, part of Clear, Inc. [who also run the Kurand chain of all-you-can-drink sake bars and the SAKETIMES site] on their attempt to support sustainable agriculture. They aim to support their partner sake breweries by paying for some, or all, the rice they need for brewing. Clear, based in Tokyo and helmed by Ryuji Ikoma, develops commercial sake projects including SAKE HUNDRED.
When you’re enjoying a glass of beer, do you ever consider how the beverage is made and whether the process is environmentally friendly? For Kim Dalum, brewing is a passion, and his startup company focuses on reducing the carbon emissions in craft breweries. Trelleborg Sealing Solutions contributed to make his dream of sustainable craft brewing a reality. Trelleborg Sealing Solutions collaborated with Dalum Beverage Equipment in the development of a CO2 compressor. The compressor is one part of a CO2 recovery plant, enabling craft breweries to recycle CO2 emitted during fermentation. Turcon® MF6 is the optimum material in the compressor’s challenging operating environment.
We have a complicated relationship with resources and materials. We continue to extract, to create, use and—overwhelmingly—waste. This not only creates a mammoth amount of human-made items in our natural world, but it leaks greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Billions of tonnes of them. It’s not all bad news though: this article considers how we can break free of our toxic relationship and reevaluate the values that have exacerbated our warming climate. Here, the findings of the Circularity Gap Report 2021 show us what is possible and within reach.
In a groundbreaking initiative organised by the Scottish Space Leadership Council (SSLC), global space sector stakeholders have been joining forces to explore solutions to sustainability-focused challenges set by environmental groups, academia, businesses and the wider public. An initial period of outreach led to an influx of written submissions that were reviewed by an independent judging panel. Challenges were then set for space industry representatives to address during online workshops running throughout May. Three broad themes were identified, with one calling for a holistic, internationally adoptable approach to measuring the true impact of the space sector on the environment. The second called for an exploration into developing an open library of space data to connect citizen science initiatives with environmental data. Finally, the sector was asked to identify ways to quantify, classify and assess the growing problem of low-orbiting space debris, to help protect the near-Earth space ecosystem.
As the world suffocates from its plastic addiction, a growing number of businesses are stepping up to the plate to reduce their plastic waste. Most recently, Trader Joe’s announced that it will be taking steps to cut back on plastic and other packaging waste after a petition launched by Greenpeace…
This year, tribal nations enter negotiations over Colorado River water.